internationalpoliticaltheory - Detailed Schedule

Wednesday 9 July

Introduction
Read ‘Introduction’, pp. 1-15 in Brown et al.

Ancient Conceptions of Politics

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Friday 11 July

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, pp. 34-60 in Brown et al. These are also available here: book 1, 21-3; book 2, 35-54 (Pericles' funeral oration and the plague), book 3, 36-49 (the Mytilenian Debate), book 5, 84-116 (the Melian Dialogue).
‘Ancient thought’, pp. 17-23 in Brown et al.

Wednesday 16 July

Aristotle, Politics, book 1.
‘Ancient thought’, pp. 23-27, 30-32 in Brown et al.

Friday 18 July

Aristotle, Politics, book 3, chapters 1-8 (1274b30-1280a6).

Wednesday 23 July

Aristotle, Politics, book 3, chapters 9-18 (1280a7-1288b7).

Friday 25 July

Aristotle, Politics, book 7, chapters 1-15 (1323a14-1334b27).

Wednesday 30 July

Cicero, On the Republic I.31-71 (on e-reserve; also in Latin here).
Cicero, On Duties I.vii-xviii (paragraphs 20-60).
‘Ancient thought’, pp. 27-30 in Brown et al.

Just War

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Friday 1 August

Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, II-II, Q 40; II-II, Q 64, articles 6-8, Q 11, article 3; pp. 213-220 in Brown et al (though question 40 is incomplete there, and question 11 is not found).
‘International relations in Christendom’, pp. 183-186 in Brown et al.
First essay opportunity: Ancient conceptions of politics topics

Wednesday 6 August

Vitoria, On the American Indians (part II of the De Indis et De Jure Belli; part III is also worth looking at), pp. 231-241 in Brown et al (though incomplete there).
Erasmus, Dulce Bellum Inexpertis, pp. 221-230 in Brown et al, and in electronic reserve.

New Conceptions of Politics

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Friday 8 August

Machiavelli, The Prince, chapters 1-3, 5-6, 8-9, 15-19, 21, 24-26.
‘The modern European state and system of states’, pp. 243-247 in Brown et al.
Second essay opportunity: Just War in Medieval Political Thought Topics

Wednesday 13 August

Machiavelli, The Prince discussion continued.
Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy, I.2-14.

Friday 15 August

Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy, I.16-20, 24-29, 53, 58, II.1-3.

Monday 18 August

Mid-trimester break begins
Third essay opportunity due - New conceptions of politics topics.

The State of Nature

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Wednesday 3 September

Hobbes, Leviathan, chapters 13-14, 17-18, 21.
‘The modern European state and system of states’, pp. 247-250 in Brown et al.

Friday 5 September

Rousseau, Second Discourse on the Origins of Inequality, part I (scroll down past the dedication and preface, start after the "notice on the notes"). Also available here.

Wednesday 10 September

Rousseau, Second Discourse on the Origins of Inequality, part II. Also available here.
Rousseau, The State of War (pp. 416-425 in Brown et al).

Democracy and Intervention

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Friday 12 September

Mill, Considerations on Representative Government, chapters 3-4.
‘State and nation in nineteenth-century international political theory’, pp. 462-465 in Brown et al.
Fourth essay opportunity: The State of Nature topics.

Wednesday 17 September

Mill, Considerations on Representative Government, chapters 6-7. It may be more useful to read chapter 8 instead of chapter 7; both are on similar topics, but chapter 8 is much clearer, as I now see - xmarquez Sep 15, 2008

Friday 19 September

Mill, Considerations on Representative Government, chapters 16 and 18.
Mill, “A Few Words on Non-Intervention” (pp. 476-493 in Brown et al).

Perpetual Peace

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Wednesday 24 September

Kant, Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch (also found in pp. 428-455 in Brown et al).
‘The Enlightenment’, pp. 387-393 in Brown et al.
Fifth essay opportunity: Democracy and Intervention topics.

Friday 26 September

Hegel, The Philosophy of Right, III.iii.a.i-III.iii.c (paragraphs 272-360, especially 321-360).
‘State and nation in nineteenth-century international political theory’, pp. 457-467 in Brown et al.

Wednesday 1 October

Marx and Engels, Communist Manifesto, entire.

Friday 3 October

Kant, Hegel, Mill and Marx compared.

Wednesday 8 October

Concluding review
Sixth essay opportunity: Perpetual peace topics.

Friday 10 October

Final test